Using VNC Tunneling over SSH - page 3

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January 30, 2006

By
Rob Reilly

Suppose I want to show the remote desktop user how I use an application on my laptop. He's still behind that firewall (with the SSH port routed to his desktop Linux machine) and I have a software firewall running on my machine. My firewall blocks all inbound ports.

In this case, everything sort of just works in reverse.

Again, the x11vnc server needs to be started. This time, it's on my laptop.

I can again initiate the tunnel from my end, this time using the -R option. R stands for remote.